Catch Turmeric Powder is made of supreme quality turmeric rhizomes, giving you a pack of fresh and enticing yellow powder, to cook your dish to perfection. turmeric is an exotic spice used since the ancient times. This spice gives a pungent taste and is mainly used as a colouring agent to the food, especially curries, dal and lemon rice. Interestingly, there is more to turmeric than just spicing up the curry. It is famous for its medicinal properties and is filled with anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties.

Culinary Uses:

Turmeric is an indispensable spice, which imparts a musky flavour and yellow colour to curries.

Almost all Indian vegetable dishes use turmeric either separately or as part of the masala (spice mixture).

It is also used in recipes comprising rice, lentils and dry beans.

A small pinch of turmeric powder would is enough to add a pleasant orange-yellow hue to salad dressings.

As awareness about the ill effects of pesticides and fertilisers rises, people have started soaking and rinsing their vegetables and greens in water mixed with turmeric and salt, as it helps remove a lot of chemicals from the surface.

Health Benefits:

Turmeric powder is an effective remedy for chronic cough, cold and throat irritations. Milk boiled with a pinch of turmeric powder and ajwain had with a little honey gives immediate relief.

Turmeric powder mixed with lime and salt helps in treating sprains and swellings.

Turmeric powder is often used to stop the blood run resulting from a knife cut or other small wounds.

Curcumin, a potent antioxidant, is believed to be the most bioactive and soothing portion of turmeric.